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THIS MORNING: A big economic announcement from Madbouly today? Also: Foreign reserves were largely stable month-on-month in March
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a news day that is all about what the fallout from Vladimir Putin’s war…
What Planet Startup thinks of upcoming regulations that could make it easier to raise capital as a startup and deploy funds here as a VC
Never underestimate how important “boring-but-important stuff” can be if you’re trying to raise money to get a new business off…
More from El Sisi’s economy speech: Growing the EGX, support for local industry + cutting public debt
More on the Sisi administration’s plans to boost the economy: The state’s plan to attractUSD 40 bn in fresh investment…
Cabinet is working on a roadmap for reducing the state’s involvement in the economy
The government has an outline of its long-term strategy to encourage private sector involvement in the economy: The Madbouly Cabinet…
More than a spoonful sugar to help the medicine go down
Gov’t announces EGP 130 bn in tax incentives + brings forward social safety measures following rate hike and devaluation: Fresh…
Public sector minimum wage to rise 12.5% from July
SMART POLICY- El Sisi raises public-sector minimum wage to EGP 2.7k: The monthly minimum wage paid to public sector workers…
Out with the in-kind, in with the banknotes
Farmers could soon be getting cash subsidies for fertilizers instead of in-kind subsidies, after President Abdel Fattah El Sisi called…
The macro picture of our 2021 recovery
Our 2021 recovery by the numbers: Following a difficult first year of the pandemic, 2021 saw the economy starting to…
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